Description

To improve resource discovery and retrieval, libraries have implemented
new discovery services, such as next generation catalogues,
federated search, and Web-scale discovery, in addition to their traditional
integrated library systems. These new discovery services greatly
improve the user experience by utilizing existing cataloguing records
housed within the library system or in combination with metadata
from other sources, both in and outside of libraries. However, to
maximize the functionality of these discovery services, libraries must
reexamine current cataloguing practices and the way libraries control
the bibliographic description to better serve the user’s needs.
This report discusses how new discovery services use the cataloguing
records and the challenges that libraries encounter in bibliographic
control to work with new discovery services, including the quality of
cataloguing records, granular levels of bibliographic description, and
integration of user-generated metadata into the cataloguing records.
Each of these aspects requires further discussion.

Issue Date:

2012

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press and the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign